File Transfer: Connect Fedora to Windows machine via ethernet without a router?

[Les Mikesell]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>> You can use a crossover cable to link the 2 machines.
>> You could then either
>> - statically fix the IP addressing on both boxes.
>> - run a dhcp server on the linux box and tell the windows machine to
>> pick up the information automatically (it may already be set up this way)

If you have the avahi package installed, you should use the 'zeroconf' 
mechanism to fail to an ip address in the 169.x.x.x range that will work 
with anything else using the same scheme (like windows boxes).  but then 
you have to check the IP addresses or use something like samba that has 
its own name mapping scheme.

>>
>> (although my preferred system would be winscp/sshd...)

I'll second that recomendation, although it needs DNS or you need to 
know the IP address.

> Thanks, Stuart. I like the idea about a DHCP server on the Linux box
> and ftp. Then _anything_ can connect to it.

Be careful with running your own DHCP server... If you ever accidentally 
plug it into someone else's network, expect to be thrown out and asked 
never to come back.

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